Protective light armor



A. A. WALLACE.

PROTECTIVE LIGHT ARMOR.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.II. 192,1.

` I Patented Jun@ 6, 1922..

xt JNlrED; STATES PATENT oFFicE,v

ANNI?. B. WALLACE, 0F 'l. "Y.'RA`.)NIEl,y PENNSYLVANIA.

PROTECTIVE LGHTABMOR.

v Specliioatlonof Letters Patent. Patente June 6, 1922,

`Application filled -August 11, 1921. Serial No. 491,619.

To all whom it may ont-em:

Be it known that I, AANNE .suitable tough resistant metal.

The loosely hanging strips ofthe fieziible mailare each about ninemchesnwide; and

say thirty inches long hanging loosely from a supporting bar 'or barsand so arranged in a double, 0 1' a triple, etc., row around the area tobe protected; `that the openings bef 'tween any two adjacent` strips ina given row falls immediately -in the middle 0f a hanging strip in thecompanion row, before, or behind, so that the said loosely hangingstrips overlap, as stated, there being a spfce of say an inch and a halfor two inches between the inner and the outer rows of said hanginstrips.

` Besi es the top supporting i baror] bars,

-if the cock-pit of an aeroplane isbeing protected, since this mustbeable to floop the loop the two vor more rows of loosely' hangvingflexible mail strips should also be secured, by flexible lacings ofspiral spring or similar elastic lacings, to bottom'bar or bars, whichbottom -bar or bars-will become` Vlof one series being arranged '1nstaggggreredl re the supporting bar or bars; when the aeroplane 1 supside-down.

while in the case of thelooseiy 'hangieg and flexible mail stripsprotecting the aero planes gasoline tank; engines, bottom of/thecockpit, and similar points; the two ormo're rows of strlps may run 1ndifferent directions; say cross-ways.

The accompanylng drawing shows a seclitoelans'WAL44 LACE, a citlzen ofthe United States, residing at Tyrone, in the county of Blair and Statetion of such protective light armor for the cock-pit of an aeroplanecomposed of portlons of two overlapping layers of 'strips of flexiblechain mail. The front set of hang 1ng strips; namely 9, 10,*and` 11,hangs by elastic la'cings from the top supporting bar 1,'2, andfastened, in likemanner elastically,

to the bottom bar 5, 6, which bottom bar becomes the supporting bar,when. the aero- E plane is u s1de-down.

' v.Similar y, the rear supporting bar has the. rear row of looselyhanging mail strips, 12, 13, 14, and 15, hanging from it and thesestrips 12, 13, 14',.and 15, are similarlyelastically laced to a bottombar 7,- 8; so that 'this will act as a -supporting bar when theaeroplaneis inverte The openings between 'the front row of strips;between 9 and 1'0; and between 10 and 11; fall directly in front ofthemid points of the hanging strips 13,-and14,,and lconversely theopenings between 12 and 13; between -13 and 14; and between 14 .and 15fall behind the mid-points of strips 9, 10, and 11.l

The essential rotective principle involved' here is that emp oyed by thered Indian warrior; when he shielded himselffrom rifle or musket ballsby catching them in his blanket, Vloosely held before him, which idea isalso embodied in thev Japanese Samurai armor; wherein the flutteringsilk streamer-s were designed to catch and baffle the enemys flyinarrows.

claim- 'A protective light armor comprising spaced series of adjacentstrips of loosely hanging flexible mail-composed of tough resistantmetal, the meeting edges of .the strlps v`Witnesses ADA L; BARGER, tBETEKAH F. HALL.

ANNE R; WALLACE.

